This inclusion of indigenous knowledge ("IK") with what in essence are indigenous cultural terms or expressions (ICE's) in Acts that do not in principle protect technology, is unfortunately mistaken...

In September 2014, Eight-Mile Style, the publisher of Eminem's "lose yourself" song filed legal proceedings against New Zealand's National party, claiming copyright infringement of Eminem's Grammy...

The owner of copyright in a work is by statute given the exclusive right to perform certain specified acts in respect of his or her work or to authorise others to do so and hence to prevent unauthorised persons from performing those acts.

On the 1st July 2020, the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) 4 of 2013 ("the Act") became effective. The Act requires all businesses which process personal information of both natural...

It has been said that the fourth industrial revolution is upon us. Technological fields such as Artificial Intelligence ("AI") ...

South Africa has the largest pharmaceutical products market in Africa, with the pharmaceutical industry playing a very important role in the South African economy.

Many of us can no longer imagine a world without social media.

Picture a scenario where you come across a product which is currently trending and children everywhere either have or want one, however, it is only being manufactured and sold by one entity.

Patenting of inventions can be notoriously expensive; however, the monopoly attracted because of it has the potential to exceed, by far, any initial patenting costs.

Over the past decade or so, social media has transformed from an entertaining pastime and means for social networking into a modern-day marketing tool

Recognising and evaluating the target market that a product or service is aimed at, can be a material factor at play in determining whether a trade mark constitutes a third-party infringement or not.

Does South African law recognise the validity of ‘perpetual' software licences?

A patent is an exclusive right in the form of a limited monopoly that is granted by a country to a patentee for a new invention that involves an inventive step and which is capable of being used or applied in trade, industry or agriculture.

In the recent matter between Woolworths Holdings Limited ("Woolworths") and Mrs. Sally Baikie ("the Complainant"), the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa ("ASA")...

The hit Netflix true crime documentary series, Tiger King, is the global spectacle we didn't know we needed, but now can't stop talking about in a time when meaningful topics of conversation...

Clients often enquire about the necessity of an intellectual property (IP) valuation as opposed to a standard accounting valuation.

Often knock off products imported into the local South African market replicate well-known brands, and an analysis needs to be done to determine if the owner of the legitimate well-known ...

The term "biopiracy" was coined to refer to the appropriation of plants and traditional knowledge by corporations and other entities for their own financial gain.

As South Africa has moved from level 5 to level 4, many new companies qualify to operate under level 4 status and will need certificates to enable them to do so, per the Amended State of National Disaster Act and Regulations.

Amidst the Global COVID-19 pandemic that has shaken our world to the core, and simply changed the way we think and behave, many large brands have created new trade mark logos to promote our new ethos of "social distancing".